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Joyce Mullen President, North America Insight Enterprises
Kyle Hanslovan Co-Founder, CEO Huntress Labs
Kevin Lynch CEO Optiv
Todd Nightingale CEO Fastly
Gajen Kandiah CEO Hitachi Vantara
Under Hanslovan, Huntress raised $60 million to con- tinue the partner-driven expansion of its managed cybersecurity platform. It also unveiled its MDR pro- tection for Microsoft 365 that includes monitoring of Active Directory activity and detection for identity com- promise and 24x7 analysis and remediation.
Optiv kicked off a major expansion in the federal government space with its acquisition of solution provider ClearShark. Lynch has brought a heightened focus on using data to drive growth, including through a new partner program that provides the basis for its partnerships with other companies.
Longtime networking specialist Nightingale took on his latest chal- lenge in 2022 when he joined Fastly as CEO. A proven and passionate technology leader, he is strengthening Fastly’s technology and go-to- market strategy to lead the company into its next stage of growth.
Kandiah has kept a razor- sharp focus on building value for customers and investing in their future, even when times are tough. This mindset has helped Hitachi Vantara continue to push out a steady stream of products in areas like data manage- ment and hybrid cloud managed services.
Mullen took Insight to new heights last year with $10.4 billion in revenue, while also increasing profit and gross margins. She is driving a revamped cloud strategy by doubling down on Microsoft, which led Insight to win two Microsoft U.S. Partner of the Year Awards in 2023.
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Nick Schneider CEO Arctic Wolf
Rod Mathews President, CEO Axcient
Kevin Rooney VP, America Channel Sales Veeam Software Finding new ways to disrupt the status quo is old news for Rooney. At Veeam, he takes the lead in disrupting the data backup and data management market by helping channel partners succeed in win- ning over customers that are looking to leverage the latest in cloud capabilities.
Vladimir Rozanovich SVP, Worldwide Infrastructure Solutions Group Sales Lenovo Rozanovich has put a pre- mium on letting partners own the customer rela- tionship as Lenovo’s North American president. Now in his new role, which he took on in June, the executive plans to take his regional success with servers to new heights.
Renen Hallak Founder, CEO Vast Data
Under Schneider’s leader- ship, Arctic Wolf has been expanding beyond its roots in MDR to address mul- tiple security problems and attack surfaces. It recently launched a retainer option for its cyber incident response services to allow partners to more easily sup- ply customers with rapid access to the services.
When Mathews joined Axcient in 2022, he was taking over a proven MSP market disrupter, one that started as a backup services provider but now provides full MSP-focused cloud file services, recovery and archiving. He is now help- ing lead the company into new areas such as Disaster Recovery as a Service.
Hallak has been busy disrupting the storage industry for quite some time. At Vast Data, he is hard at work creating technology that ends stor- age tiering with an all-new scale-out architecture, which adds flash perfor- mance to all data types.
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John Pagliuca President, CEO N-able
Pankaj Patel Co-Founder, CEO Nile
HoJin Kim CRO
Sanjay Mirchandani President, CEO Commvault Mirchandani has turned a legacy data backup soft- ware provider into one as modern as any born-in-the- cloud upstart. Commvault provides comprehensive data management and protection using the cloud, on-premises environments and its Commvault Metallic SaaS technology.
Fran Rosch CEO ForgeRock
WatchGuard Technologies Kim joined WatchGuard in mid-May to lead its global sales force. He is focused on accelerating the vendor’s efforts around enabling MSPs with WatchGuard’s unified cybersecurity plat- form. “MSPs represent the best route to market that will actually help guarantee the best customer satisfaction,” Kim told CRN .
A year after spinning off from SolarWinds, N-able is on an upward trajec- tory with revenue and income up significantly over the previous year, a feat Pagliuca said is due to its employees. This spring N-able published its inaugural ESG Report that spotlights its contin- ued efforts.
A technology legend for over 25 years, Patel founded and launched Nile in 2018. Under his leadership, Nile is disrupting the status quo and reimagining the future of networking. By stay- ing dedicated to satisfying customer needs, Patel and his startup are delivering on his vision of simplifying network connectivity.
In the increasingly criti- cal area of digital identity, Rosch has piloted ForgeRock to position itself at the intersection of identity, security and digi- tal transformation. Recent innovations have included a new offering that aims to make it easier for businesses to adopt pass- wordless authentication.
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